Capture the Flag 2025

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Capture the Flag Challenge 2025

Pakistan Cyber Security Challenges

The event will be a jeopardy-style CTF where the participants will have to solve challenges of the following categories:

Digital Forensic Investigation
Security Audit and Compliance
Ethical Hacking
Reverse Engineering
Cryptography
Web Application Exploitation
Binary Exploitation / Pwn
Miscellaneous
Malware Analysis
Vulnerability Analysis

Rules:
Team will comprise of at-least 2 members and a maximum of 3 members. For Students based teams, all 2-3 members must be currently enrolled students. Whereas, for the rest, there is no such compulsion. Students will have a separate scoreboard and professionals will have a separate scoreboard, i.e. two different categories.

Rules for Showdown:
For Showdown, teams will nominate an individual based on the category of the coming challenge informed by arbiter. The following categories will be available: Binary Exploitation / Pwn Reverse Engineering Web Application Exploitation

After nominating, each team's member will face the opponent team's member one-on-one. First one to hack and run ./submitter will be considered the winner and move on to the next round. Since Showdown is a Single Elimination competition, the losing team will be eliminated on spot. Each challenge will have 1 hour time and hints will automatically release after 30, 40 and 50 minutes respectively. In case the challenge is not solved within 1 hour, a Sudden Death challenge will be released which will be solvable within 5 minutes.

NOTE: Recommended team composition is as follows:
-> 1 person for Pwn, 1 for Web and 1 for Reversing to cater for on-site Showdown.
-> For Showdown, there will NOT be division based on categories.
-> Top 10 teams from Students category and Top 10 teams from Professional category will qualify for on-site Finale and Showdown.






NOTE: Please download template of authorization form from HERE

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